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(CNN)Douglas Haig, an Arizona man who says he sold tracer ammunition to the gunman in October's Las Vegas massacre, was arrested Friday on a charge of conspiring to manufacture and sell another type of ammunition-- armor-piercing bullets -- in violation of federal law.

A criminal complaint alleges two unfired .308-caliber (7.62mm)rounds found in gunman Stephen Paddock's hotel room had Haig's fingerprints on them as well as tool marks from his workshop. The bullets in the cartridges were armor-piercing,with an incendiary capsule in the nose, the complaint says.

The FBI on October 19 searched Haig's Mesa home and seized ammunition the agency says is armor-piercing, the complaint said. Haig did not have a license to manufacture armor-piercing ammunition, documents said.

Douglas Haig's name was revealed in the release of search warrant records.

Haig, 55, appeared in court Friday and was released on his own recognizance with specific conditions not spelled out in court proceedings. He is due in court again February 15 for a preliminary hearing.

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The maximum penalty for manufacturing illegal ammunition is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Haig's attorney, Marc J. Victor, told CNN he had no comment. CNN affiliate KNXV caught up with Victor outside court, and the lawyer said he couldn't say anything because of the ongoing case.

"My first obligation and only obligation is to my client," he told KNXV.

The complaint

Haig was publicly linked to the Las Vegas investigation Tuesday when a judge unsealed months-old police search warrant records that named him as a person of interest.

In a Friday morning news conference before his arrest, Haig,responding to the documents' release, said he sold tracer ammunition to Paddock at his home in September after they met at a gun show. Tracer ammunition has a pyrotechnic charge that, when fired, leaves an illuminated trace that can help a shooter have a more precise idea of where the bullet is going.

Haig did not describe the ammunition as armor-piercing. Victor, at the same news conference at his Phoenix-area office, said the tracer ammunition that Haig sold Paddock "was not modified in any way ... from manufacturer's specs."

But in Friday's criminal complaint, investigators say Haig and an associate also claimed they sold to Paddock other ammunition-- four or five 10-round packages of .308-caliber incendiary ammunition -- at a Las Vegas gun show in August.

It's not clear from the complaint whether the two armor-piercing rounds with the incendiary capsule are from the packages Haig allegedly told investigators he sold Paddock at the gun show. The complaint also does not say whether Paddock fired any of the ammunition that he bought from Haig.

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Two law enforcement sources told CNN in October that Paddock, during the massacre, fired incendiary bullets at a 43,000-barrel fuel tank on the grounds of nearby McCarran International Airport in what investigators believe was a failed attempt to cause an explosion.

Haig did not mention the incendiary rounds --which are meant to ignite what they hit --in Friday's news conference. Victor, his attorney, declined to comment about CNN's questions about the incendiary rounds.

The complaint does not name Haig's associate.

The law enforcement sources also said tracer rounds were found in Paddock's hotel room. But there was no evidence the tracer rounds were used during the attack, according to the sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about such details.

Authorities have repeatedly said Paddock was the only shooter. Friday's charges do not allege that Haig knew of Paddock's intentions to kill in Las Vegas.

Haig says he saw nothing suspicious

Haig, an aerospace engineer and part-time ammunition reseller, said at Friday's news conference that he never saw anything suspicious in his brief interactions with Paddock.

Paddock arrived at the seller's home in Mesa "very well-dressed, very well-groomed, very polite, very respectful," Haig said.

"At no time did I see anything suspicious or odd or any kind of a tell, anything that would set off an alarm," he said.

Haig also said that he received death threats after his name was revealed this week.

He stressed that his sale made "no contribution" to the killings since Paddock didn't appear to have fired tracer rounds.

"I hope today ends (the death threats) when people realize that I wasn't in collusion with Paddock -- that I was not in any way, shape or form associated with the horrible crime that he committed," Haig said.

Timeline of sales

Haig said he sold 720 rounds of surplus US military tracer ammunition to Paddock at his home in September after Paddock approached him or an associate at gun shows.

• 600 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, M62, tracer ammunition, manufactured by the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Missouri.

• 120 rounds of 5.56mm M196 tracer ammunition, manufactured by the same plant.

He said the 5.56mm rounds were in their original packaging. He did not comment on the 7.62mm rounds' packaging.

Before the sale, Paddock told him "that he was going to go out to the desert and put on a light show" with the ammunition -- that he was "going to go out and shoot it at night with friends."

Seller's reaction to massacre: 'Revulsion'

Victor said police found his client's name and address on a box that Paddock had -- a box that Haig gave him to carry the tracer rounds he had bought.

Haig said he learned of the massacre when authorities contacted him at work the next morning.

"Revulsion," Haig said of his reaction. "Sickness. Horror that this man would do something like that."

Haig spoke with investigators four times after the shooting, and has been "fully cooperative," Victor said.

"This was a routine transaction to purchase a routine type of ammunition that is available in many different retail outlets throughout the state of Arizona," Victor said. "After that transaction, Doug had absolutely no further contact with Mr. Paddock."

Death threats

Haig said he's received death threats since the search warrant documents were released Tuesday.

"One woman (was) screaming through my door that I should be killed and I should die," he told reporters at Friday's news conference. "It's been not a lot of fun, quite frankly."

Haig added, "I had no contribution to what Paddock did. I had no way to see into his mind."

Haig named as person of interest

A Nevada judge on Tuesday unsealed police search warrant records -- prepared shortly after the shooting -- that mentioned two persons of interest in the case. The judge released the documents after CNN and other media outlets sued to obtain them.

One person of interest, whom police had named previously, was the killer's girlfriend, Marilou Danley. Authorities subsequently cleared her publicly.

The second name was redacted. But the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported it had a version of the search warrant that named, without redaction, Haig as that second person. The documents didn't explain why he was a person of interest.

Sheriff has said feds were investigating someone

When the search warrant documents were released this week, Clark County District Court Judge Elissa Cadish allowed a small portion of those records to be redacted because "there is an ongoing investigation regarding charges against another individual, arising out of information obtained in connection with the ... shooting, but not directly related to the shooting."

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